LGBTQ Resources

LGBT History Month celebrates the achievements of 31 lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender Icons. Each day in October, a new LGBT Icon is featured with a video, bio, bibliography, downloadable images, and other resources.

As America’s storytellers, the National Park Service (NPS) is committed to telling the history of all Americans in all of its diversity and complexity.

Explore PBS' new collection featuring a selection of films documenting the LGBTQ+ Experience — along with articles, digital shorts, and original features exploring America’s continued struggle with democracy, inclusion and justice for LGBTQ+ Americans, and celebrating the contributions of the LGBTQ+ community to the American story.

The gay rights movement is the advocacy for equal rights for the LGBTQ+ community, including lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people. Key moments in LGBTQ+ history include the trial of Oscar Wilde, the Stonewall Riots, the assassination of Harvey Milk and marriage equality.

A podcast about evil and complicated queers in history. Why do we remember our heroes better than our villains?

History is Gay is a monthly podcast where two queer nerds use their passion for social justice, history, and storytelling to examine the overlooked and underappreciated queer ladies, gents, and gentle-enbies from the unexplored corners of history. Because history has never been as straight as you think.

Making Gay History addresses the absence of substantive, in-depth LGBTQ+-inclusive American history from the public discourse and the classroom. By sharing the stories of those who helped a despised minority take its rightful place in society as full and equal citizens, we aim to encourage connection, pride, and solidarity within the LGBTQ+ community—and to provide an entry point for both allies and the general public to its largely hidden history.

Each of the 8 episodes in Unboxing Queer History focus on a different story from the LGBTQ history inside of Gerber/Hart’s collections and archives.